Here is my suggestion on where to start. I would like a light-weight editor where the user could apply styles, insert tables, images, etc. The styles would be mapped to a schema so that the user could output XML. Then a full copy of FrameMaker could be used as "print engine". You would set up a structured application in full FrameMaker, and import the XML for print, etc.
The reasons I favor this approach: 1) FrameMaker is currently the best "print engine" on the market for producing high-quality print/PDF output. 2) With a light-weight editor, you would only need one copy of FrameMaker for output. The rest of the writers/editors could use the light-weight editor. 3) You could easily exchange content with users of other XML editors as long as everyone is using the same schema. 4) This is a realistic "first step" to a FrameMaker replacement. Anything more complex may be too ambitious and not get too far. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-283-5045 rick at frameexpert.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 11:15 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only 2013-05-13-01T15:15Z I, too, am interested in addition to Alan Litchfield, Syed Hosain, et al. Dave Stamm Information Engineer -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy H. Griffith Sent: 2013-05-11-Saturday 20:54 To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only On Sat, 11 May 2013 11:33:13 -0700 (PDT), Writer <generic668 at yahoo.ca> wrote: >I say we start a new company and create a competitor to FrameMaker! >Who's with me? Anyone? Anyone? Well... we've had one on the back burner for several years now. Basically it's an Open Source GPL project, so zero financing needed, with a very basic core and plugins independently installable for most of the functionality. We called it "Omni 2.0", after the very first product I wrote, the first screen-oriented editor ever on CP/M 1.4 on 8080 (way before WordStar). If there really is much interest, we can set it up as a SourceForge project pretty easily (we have a couple of others on SourceForge). We're not set on that name, or on much of anything else except GPL. Greed doesn't always have to win out... ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <jeremy at omsys.com> http://mif2go.com/ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/dave.stamm%40gdc4s.c om Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as rick at rickquatro.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/rick%40rickquatro.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
